Fraser Best race cars are more sensivel than street cars, so if you wanna be a racer, you need to know the control of your car practecing on other type of racing, and you need to know how is the track. thats why exist the qualafiting think
Reflexes and reaction time are two different things. His reflexes can only improve so much, and the brain can only become so quick to process... he was expecting it, he knew the car well through that corner and tentatively got a little earlier trying to see if he could get away with it, then quickly adjusted. He must have read something before he felt the rear go, because that's just beyond Ayrton Senna reaction times....
Hit the nail right on the head there. These cars are going so fast that you can't just go off reactions alone. These drivers know exactly how the car will react to the inputs it receives. He knew accelerating that early in the chicane would have a good chance of breaking the rear loose. So when it did, he was ready.
Andres .C Brandon Ryan Tiago Jorge Anything involving hand-eye coordination is, by definition, a _reaction_ and not a reflex, no matter how fast you are going.
Ben Ryder Yes, today. But back in the times it was in full condition and the Mulsanne straight was an actual straight without the chicanes, Sauber C9 reached 400 km/h in qualification, while ti was definitely a bit slower in a race mode, it still repeatedly reached about 380 km/h in the race, which is tremendous if you consider the fact it is a 24 hour race. Those C11s were even a bit faster then those C9s, but I don't know the precise number, maybe about 405 km/h. Nowadays, these cars are historics, they are still very fast but they never reach the speeds they did when they were in full condition. Real beauties and moster in the time
SRAMEK Yes yes. I know the old LM had a massive straight without the kinks. But the car looks like it is stuck between mid 320s and 330s due to the gearing or something.
SRAMEK Ben Ryder Firstly, the C9 reached 400km/h _once_, driven by Kenny Acheson in 1989. Secondly, it did not happen at night. Not ever. This was the last time the old 5 kilometre straight was used. From 1990 onwards, chicanes were introduced and nobody has been anywhere near 400 km/h since. The highest ever top speed on the Mulsanne Straight by any car was the Peugeot WM88 in 1988 which reached 405 km/h. Anything about the C11 reaching 405 is speculation because it never raced on tracks where that sort of speed would be possible. The practical limit for this C9 would probably be somewhere north of 340 (which you can see just before the first chicane). The highest speed recorded in 1990 was a Nissan at 366 km/h, which is amazing considering how little distance they travel. There would be no point gearing them any higher. Even as it was, it would have taken probably 2/3rds or even 3/4 of the length of the old straight to get up to 400 km/h. The drag at that speed is enormous. For the record, the FIA no longer sanctions tracks with straight lengths over 2 kms.
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Great video! I like how you can see the throttle and brake on the green and red bars. It's amazing how much of the driving is done on full throttle, and how quickly he gets back to full after cornering.
The C11 is an amazing sounding car, another good on board video of this Beast.....Good driving well before the blow out, then an excellent save, Great Stuff....
in real Group C race cars were pretty easy to drive race cars other than japanese games try to tell us... you need a easy to drive car if driver should push it over 24h too the limit or close to the limit... u can build a hard to drive endurance racer but the chances that it will be successfull tend to zerro... best way to judge that is to watch semi pro driver getting the chance to drive such cars ...they all tell you they are impressed how easy the Group Ccars are to control...that is exactly what you need if you drive 24h under hard competition. The less stress the car put on the driver the more energy he could put into driving at the limit without exhursting... the 787B is a good example how to make it wrong.... their lucky win at LeMans was so exhursting for Johnny Herbert in the last stin that he could not go to the podium to celebrat with the other driver the one and only victory of the car... the noise and heat level in the Mazda 787B was borderline suicid level...
Im pretty sure this might be the fastest lemans car of all time, this thing was just beyond powerful and agile. The c9 was already a monster but this c11 is a souped up c9.
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garyhope2 Wrong- NASCAR engines actually rev much higher than this. The typical stock car redlines at ~9700rpm. In the 2014 season (when power wasn't restricted), they were making 950hp out of a naturally aspirated 5.8L PUSHROD v8, turning at over 10,000 rpm. You may criticize the tracks and the fans, but NASCAR engines are a wonderful thing.
Huge respect for saving that! He is going 290 kmh when he goes onto the grass after the blowout! I've seen Nigel Mansell save an F1 horror smash in the Australian F1 Grand Prix in the 80s, which was on a par with this one. Well done that driver!
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insane fucking car, the way it just reels the opposition in with every straight stretch mind boggling, when your car is doing 310 and u have a blow out, you grip that wheel and keep it straight no matter what.
its a Sauber C11.. i dont understand why people call it Mercedes?? The car was developed and built by Sauber in Hiwil Switzerland. Mercedes has just built the Engine. Correct name is Sauber Mercedes C11
wrong. colloquial almost everybody says "sauber c11". but the official and correct name is "mercedes-benz c11". there was an interview with leo ress who engineered the c11. he said that the last race car with the name "mercedes" was the w 196 (silberpfeil) from 1955. after that no race car had the name "mercedes" in it. but the c11 officially was the the first race car after 45 years called "mercedes" again. it was the race drivers, the commentators and the motorsport magazines who called it "sauber c11". by the way: the sauber c7 was powered by a bmw engine. the sauber c8 was the first race car in cooperation with mercedes-benz. and from 1987-89 the c9's official name was "sauber c9" or "sauber-mercedes c9", but from january to april 1990 they named it "mercedes-benz c9". there never was a c10 because it was difficult to pronounce the name. so in theory the c11 is a c10. oh...and: both companies, sauber and mercedes, developed and built the c11.
There's more to racing than top speed. The Group C brakes earlier and slows more than the LMP1. It's also important to remember that Group C cars could only be pushed hard in qualifying. In the race, they had to save fuel.
Amazing !! Thank for posting ! I have just watched Onboard Audi Etron Quatro, and can't watched it moe than 10 seconds......Look how the driver is battling on the steering wheel ! compared to actuals race cars.....manual gearbox, no assist whatsoever, and big balls !
That is so intense. I would be so exhausted after this that I would probably sleep for three days after qualifying. It takes a special kind of individual to do this..
Brazilians are passionate about racing cars, but has no races in Brazil with these supercars, only runs with tourism cars. People in Brazil have come to know these supercars playing Gran Turismo and Forza. But see in real life, the real car is much more fun and exciting.
+Alfie Briggs Racing Yes, but that power comes only with highest turbo settings, right? Are they using 900hp on this lap? Top speed is not as 363kph registered on 1991 qualyfing , that's for sure. But what is the reason?
Mercedes said it was only ever about 820 bhp. I have no figure for a car in qualifying trim. Maybe 850 but probably no more. But to get to 380 km/h or more, which they did, would have needed every bit of that.
FYI this was not in 2012. This was almost 13 years earlier. Mercedes hasn't competed at Le Mans since 1999 when mark webber had his famous crash. Prototype cars adopted the paddle shift gearboxes in the early 2000s.
it was.. in 2012 was something like "Le Mans Classic" where they race with a couple of old Le Mans Cars. The C11 never raced in Le Mans though, it was the C9. But, you are right, that Mercedes never ever wanted to bring a new car anymore to Le Mans after the 1999 incident.
How the driver controlled that I don't know, but it was fantastically well done.
Anya: that is just insane.
Once, 416kph with a WM powered by a Peugeot engine, in 1988. It was in a test drive.
405km/h in race.
Too easy if you're a good pilot.
It was actually 407.
They said 405 to promote the Peugeot 405. ;)
Fraser Best race cars are more sensivel than street cars, so if you wanna be a racer, you need to know the control of your car practecing on other type of racing, and you need to know how is the track. thats why exist the qualafiting think
And he went that fast while in zero gear.
Imagine how much faster he would go if head cranked into 1st gear.
Lol
@Dane look at the gear indicator it always says 0
Lololol
REKCEP 😀😂😂😂
CVT!
Driving one handed down the
Mulsane like a total boss.
Fun fact, the Mulsanne straight used to be fully straight and the bends had to be added because the Sauber C9 was consistently reaching 400 km/h
They thought about adding ballast, but the 100lb balls of steel the drivers had was enough :P
No, shifting is mandatory
even speedo is not sure how fast is it
300 310 330 Kmh idk man
@@ashtonjames7166 340 km
It reached 340 a couple times at least
Great save from oversteer at 1:35 very quick reaction!
Reflexes and reaction time are two different things. His reflexes can only improve so much, and the brain can only become so quick to process... he was expecting it, he knew the car well through that corner and tentatively got a little earlier trying to see if he could get away with it, then quickly adjusted. He must have read something before he felt the rear go, because that's just beyond Ayrton Senna reaction times....
Andres .C Great explanation, I like it even more now!
Hit the nail right on the head there. These cars are going so fast that you can't just go off reactions alone. These drivers know exactly how the car will react to the inputs it receives. He knew accelerating that early in the chicane would have a good chance of breaking the rear loose. So when it did, he was ready.
Andres .C Brandon Ryan Tiago Jorge Anything involving hand-eye coordination is, by definition, a _reaction_ and not a reflex, no matter how fast you are going.
TheThirdMan I know, that's what I said. It was a reaction not a reflex. A reflex is bumping your knee with a hammer and kicking in consecuence.
I had a blowout in the same place the other month, no big deal. I simply reset to game.
This is funny lol
If your a real car guy, you gotta love video games 😁🏁🏁
Well, if you play online in simracing you can reset nothing.
@@bestopinion9257 bruh its a joke
@@SeanCampbell_iRacing bruh?
no traction control, just skill is what you witnessed.
that explains why it accelerates like an out of control demon thats about ready to kill the driver yet the driver has full tame
Proper driving in a proper car, manual gearbox, more power than traction... Respect...
Even though the Mercedes was either turbocharged or supercharged it had the sound of a big American or Australian V8
Proper sound, proper manual gearbox, proper driving!
Its manual didn't know that
@@luxuriousmindset1906 You can see driver with right hand change the gear.
How exciting it must have been to reach 400 km/h in this, especially at night
It looked like it maxed out at 330 km/h
Ben Ryder Yes, today. But back in the times it was in full condition and the Mulsanne straight was an actual straight without the chicanes, Sauber C9 reached 400 km/h in qualification, while ti was definitely a bit slower in a race mode, it still repeatedly reached about 380 km/h in the race, which is tremendous if you consider the fact it is a 24 hour race. Those C11s were even a bit faster then those C9s, but I don't know the precise number, maybe about 405 km/h. Nowadays, these cars are historics, they are still very fast but they never reach the speeds they did when they were in full condition. Real beauties and moster in the time
SRAMEK Yes yes. I know the old LM had a massive straight without the kinks. But the car looks like it is stuck between mid 320s and 330s due to the gearing or something.
Ben Ryder gear ratio
SRAMEK Ben Ryder Firstly, the C9 reached 400km/h _once_, driven by Kenny Acheson in 1989. Secondly, it did not happen at night. Not ever. This was the last time the old 5 kilometre straight was used. From 1990 onwards, chicanes were introduced and nobody has been anywhere near 400 km/h since. The highest ever top speed on the Mulsanne Straight by any car was the Peugeot WM88 in 1988 which reached 405 km/h. Anything about the C11 reaching 405 is speculation because it never raced on tracks where that sort of speed would be possible. The practical limit for this C9 would probably be somewhere north of 340 (which you can see just before the first chicane). The highest speed recorded in 1990 was a Nissan at 366 km/h, which is amazing considering how little distance they travel. There would be no point gearing them any higher. Even as it was, it would have taken probably 2/3rds or even 3/4 of the length of the old straight to get up to 400 km/h. The drag at that speed is enormous. For the record, the FIA no longer sanctions tracks with straight lengths over 2 kms.
My arms are sore just by watching that heavy steering. Oof
For him to be driving the c11 like this in 2012 makes this pilot my hero! This is how they are supposed to be driven. Who is driving here?
Bob berridge
Driver is a mate of mine, Bob Berridge
respect....proper natural racing driver with reactions to match....superb
yes - shifting at 303 kmH to the next gear ;-)
kt35 pw fast and furious
amazing stuff, and beautifully controlled that blowout
I'm not into cars at all, but from what I've heard over my entire life thus far, this is the best engine sound of all time.
This is in the top five for me easily. You should also check out Georg Plasa's BMW V8, Jozef Beres Audi Quattro 5cyl, and Mazda 787B 3-rotor flyby videos. Heres my favorite 787b flyby th-cam.com/video/7dBiPZBIst4/w-d-xo.html
@@followtheciaence4 rotor ;)
That is one of the sweetest sounding V8s I've ever heard.
Manual gearbox! I miss that so much!
Julio Cesar all race cars are manual??
@@jacksonsims2685 old days yes, by now no one left
Julio Cesar every car in NASCAR is manual, every F1 car is manual, every Le Mans/WEC car is manual
Jackson Sims I guess he means it's an H shifter with clutch (no sequential stick, no paddle shifters).
David Aguilera if he means that then he would be correct but I don’t know if that’s what he’s talking about.
That was a very nice safe sir, well done!
Oh these old group C cars, nothing else will never come close to them.
Gotta love em'!
Yeah, nowadays le mans cars are a total joke next to these
These cars have no problem doing 390km/h or 242 mph. Amazing
That was an amazing save. No overcorrection and instantly away from the throttle. Nerves of steel
Great video! I like how you can see the throttle and brake on the green and red bars. It's amazing how much of the driving is done on full throttle, and how quickly he gets back to full after cornering.
What an engine!!!!!! What a sound!!!!!!!! That thing is beyond awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The C11 is an amazing sounding car, another good on board video of this Beast.....Good driving well before the blow out, then an excellent save, Great Stuff....
That beast is difficult to drive even in Gran Turismo Sport
In Assetto Corsa with the turbos turned all the way up, it's borderline undriveable below 4th gear. Absolutely badass machine.
Fav car in GTS from a pure enjoyment standpoint
Husaberg R Except its not
in real Group C race cars were pretty easy to drive race cars other than japanese games try to tell us... you need a easy to drive car if driver should push it over 24h too the limit or close to the limit... u can build a hard to drive endurance racer but the chances that it will be successfull tend to zerro... best way to judge that is to watch semi pro driver getting the chance to drive such cars ...they all tell you they are impressed how easy the Group Ccars are to control...that is exactly what you need if you drive 24h under hard competition. The less stress the car put on the driver the more energy he could put into driving at the limit without exhursting... the 787B is a good example how to make it wrong.... their lucky win at LeMans was so exhursting for Johnny Herbert in the last stin that he could not go to the podium to celebrat with the other driver the one and only victory of the car... the noise and heat level in the Mazda 787B was borderline suicid level...
Brutally beautiful
One of the best looking GC cars as well
310kph?
Windshield wiper: “hold my beer.”
It hits 340 kmph mark.
I can't believe 212 mph, Jesus chirst that is a fast motor lol
Engine sounds brutal! Acceleration wow!
Good GRAVY that engine sound is ORGASMIC.
nice engine sound!
***** For sure!
man this car is a monster !!!! I think it's the fastest Mercedes car of all time
Im pretty sure this might be the fastest lemans car of all time, this thing was just beyond powerful and agile. The c9 was already a monster but this c11 is a souped up c9.
+Augusto Ortiz totally agree with you 👍
S. W. 400, with the two chicanes ? Come on.
@Stefan W. It never did 407 km/h.
Awesome control!! That's why he is there and I am here!
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Wish we had real race cars like this again
Monster car for a monster driver... love it.. so raw and angry
This sounds like NASCAR, but much, much, better.
Le Mans compared to NASCAR. Absolutely barbaric!
You idiot, many of the American cars like the Panoz was using a NASCAR engines.
Much higher RPM's. Much more interesting with left AND RIGHT TURNS and speed ups and slow downs.
garyhope2
Wrong-
NASCAR engines actually rev much higher than this. The typical stock car redlines at ~9700rpm.
In the 2014 season (when power wasn't restricted), they were making 950hp out of a naturally aspirated 5.8L PUSHROD v8, turning at over 10,000 rpm.
You may criticize the tracks and the fans, but NASCAR engines are a wonderful thing.
Gᴜᴛꜱ • ᏖᏂᏋ ᏂᎧᏬᏁᎴ Ꭷƒ ᎴᏗᏒᏦᏁᏋᏕᏕ NO THEY ARE NOT
holyshit great car control
Wow, the roar of the MoTec exhaust is amazing!
You can see the understeer of those older cars so well, it looks like it hates those apexes but somehow he finds them
One of the best sounding cars.
Huge respect for saving that!
He is going 290 kmh when he goes onto the grass after the blowout!
I've seen Nigel Mansell save an F1 horror smash in the Australian F1 Grand Prix in the 80s, which was on a par with this one. Well done that driver!
Auatralia 87, he lost the championship there, who goes to Prost.
No paddle shift that's a race car driver skill
Could not fathom heel toe shifting a monster w/ so much speed and power
Du vrai pilotage du grand Art👏 . Quelle voiture diaboliquement belle😍, une sacré caisse pour de sacré Mec ☝️💪
Hell yeaahhh 🔥this sounds like a race car,goes like obe and the driver drives it like obe..👍👍
Como inflan esos turbos por dios 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱 una locura
simply amazing! Especially in neutral gear... :D
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BRUUUUUUUTAL sound.....
Much better than the glorified screaming F1 V12
It's a.close battle...really close battle.
Good ole' group C. The cars are badass to look at, fast on the track, and scary as fuck to drive compared to every other class.
more badass than that 1990 nissan r92cp
and i noticed these cars were the fastest things i seen racing on the track
unlike racecars these dats
+fargeeks those weren't race cars, those were devils on wheels!
Awesome din. Saw them race at Le Mans in 1991 and the C9s at Brands , Donington and Silverstone in 1989.
Best Group C car for sure, and definitely my favorite! Wish we had it in Gran Turismo 7!
What a save!
Music to my ears.
2:56
New underwear time.
I was saying shit shit like I was in the passenger seat. Thanks Evo. These drivers are true gladiators!
Amazing catch!! Love the spool-down of the turbos as he coasts..
I have seen other onboards of group C but this machine is a rocket so far!
What a sound ❤
Blown tire? Excellent save.
Not a tire, he has blown an engine.
Blown engines dont steer you into the grass tho you can see he was going right even with countersteering
It's a blown tire you can literally search it up
I've set my alarm clock to that sound
What recent car sounds like this?
Superb save by the driver!
2:50 scares the shit out of my ass. Man’s a living legend to control that...
it boggles the mind how fast that really is. seeing the fences and curb stones go by in an instant.
Awesome video !!!!
3:00 !!! WTF? Piss my pants. Need the huge balls of those heros. Massive respect.
insane fucking car, the way it just reels the opposition in with every straight stretch mind boggling, when your car is doing 310 and u have a blow out, you grip that wheel and keep it straight no matter what.
its a Sauber C11.. i dont understand why people call it Mercedes?? The car was developed and built by Sauber in Hiwil Switzerland. Mercedes has just built the Engine.
Correct name is Sauber Mercedes C11
wrong.
colloquial almost everybody says "sauber c11".
but the official and correct name is "mercedes-benz c11".
there was an interview with leo ress who engineered the c11. he said that the last race car with the name "mercedes" was the w 196 (silberpfeil) from 1955. after that no race car had the name "mercedes" in it. but the c11 officially was the the first race car after 45 years called "mercedes" again. it was the race drivers, the commentators and the motorsport magazines who called it "sauber c11".
by the way:
the sauber c7 was powered by a bmw engine.
the sauber c8 was the first race car in cooperation with mercedes-benz.
and from 1987-89 the c9's official name was "sauber c9" or "sauber-mercedes c9", but from january to april 1990 they named it "mercedes-benz c9".
there never was a c10 because it was difficult to pronounce the name. so in theory the c11 is a c10.
oh...and:
both companies, sauber and mercedes, developed and built the c11.
Sauber was the main designer mercedes helped with the engine and electronics
@@DasPolarlichtlein*sauber-mercedes C1-C11
Nikmat sedap 😍
imagine if F1 had engines like this
It is actually nice to see that even though such cars are not for "everyday use" the owners do not hesitate to push them
A brown trouser moment if there ever was one!!
What an wonderful car,brutal sound,acceleration and design! Handling out of corners be careful 😉
Many believe this car did NOT have turbocharged suspension, but you are one of the few to correctly point out that it did.
dreadnought1275 ????
That is the best sounding race car ever
There's more to racing than top speed. The Group C brakes earlier and slows more than the LMP1. It's also important to remember that Group C cars could only be pushed hard in qualifying. In the race, they had to save fuel.
Exactly.
What a driver. This man saved a priceless historical car.
Thats called Racing! Not modern F1! Fack them, as J. Clarkson said :)
top gear would have been funnier if they all spoke like that lol
Por dios como soplan esos turbos ni el piloto lo puede controlar a ese demonio que locura debe tener mas de 1000cv seguro 🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱
Amazing !! Thank for posting ! I have just watched Onboard Audi Etron Quatro, and can't watched it moe than 10 seconds......Look how the driver is battling on the steering wheel ! compared to actuals race cars.....manual gearbox, no assist whatsoever, and big balls !
Nice to see the steering wheel on the right side of the car
The reason why he can drive with one hand on the steering wheel and the other on the gear it's because the mass of his ball's keeping the car stable
This car was (and still is!!) such beast!!
I love it
yeah i see this car running first time is the c7 in 1987 and in 1991 when mazda win le mans
Groupe C has the craziest category in LMP cars ever
That is so intense. I would be so exhausted after this that I would probably sleep for three days after qualifying. It takes a special kind of individual to do this..
Great driving...
Saw this car winning on the Nürburgring yesterday at "Eifelrennen". Great to see how freakin fast these group C cars are :)
I'm most impressed by the window wiper that stayed put
Has anybody noticed that the tyre blew out virtually at the spot where Steve Mc queen had his crash in the Le Mans film?
Did not know that. My dad took me to see that movie at the theater when it first came out. Fond memories...
Brazilians are passionate about racing cars, but has no races in Brazil with these supercars, only runs with tourism cars. People in Brazil have come to know these supercars playing Gran Turismo and Forza. But see in real life, the real car is much more fun and exciting.
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sweet jesus ive never heard a merc sound like this. Awsome!!!!!
Eric Jarvis i did in need for speed carbon. Unbelieveable. It sounds literally the same. Wish i could find street legal like this.
Dam I miss group C!
Ngl I wish the Mulsanne straight had been run without the slowing down corners to see its top speed. I mean it went up to 335 eventually!
I am here for the V8 sound !
Proper fucking race car
Wicked smooth gear changes!!
That looks like a hand-full! An hour or so in that beast would be brutal!!
wow, great power! Which turbo position is using?
***** Why do you really think this case is CLK or CLR???? Have you had a good breakfast today?
+LeKeGniGit this has about 900 bhp
+Alfie Briggs Racing Yes, but that power comes only with highest turbo settings, right? Are they using 900hp on this lap? Top speed is not as 363kph registered on 1991 qualyfing , that's for sure. But what is the reason?
Mercedes said it was only ever about 820 bhp. I have no figure for a car in qualifying trim. Maybe 850 but probably no more. But to get to 380 km/h or more, which they did, would have needed every bit of that.
+TheThirdMan well it has more than than now
Phenomenal levels of control, and what a brute of a car!
FYI this was not in 2012. This was almost 13 years earlier. Mercedes hasn't competed at Le Mans since 1999 when mark webber had his famous crash. Prototype cars adopted the paddle shift gearboxes in the early 2000s.
it was.. in 2012 was something like "Le Mans Classic" where they race with a couple of old Le Mans Cars. The C11 never raced in Le Mans though, it was the C9. But, you are right, that Mercedes never ever wanted to bring a new car anymore to Le Mans after the 1999 incident.